Tiscali Going Down The Tubes

The Register is reporting that things are continuing to get worse for Tiscali, who I have to thank for my loss of service since Comcast used them to route traffic to Europe. It took Comcast quite a bit of time to realize that Tiscali was dropping traffic, but when they finally did pull their heads out of the sand (months later) I was finally able to connect to my hosting provider.

One thing that is interesting, was that after my connection to Servage (Who hosted my site at that point) was restored I noticed some similarities between the routes being used by Comcast and the routes being used by my workplace to reach Servage.

9 pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.30) 12.405 ms 13.889 ms 14.152 ms 10 cogent.iad01.atlas.cogentco.com (75.149.228.26) 14.168 ms 21.225 ms 14.308 ms 11 te3-2.ccr01.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.125) 15.293 ms 15.743 ms 14.553 ms 12 te3-4.ccr02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.26.186) 17.214 ms 18.758 ms 16.700 ms 13 te9-1.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.141) 104.318 ms 105.560 ms 103.027 ms 14 te4-2.mpd01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.201) 103.738 ms 103.923 ms 103.353 ms 15 te8-7.mpd01.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.58) 103.427 ms 104.158 ms 103.413 ms 16 te2-2.ccr02.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.73) 108.924 ms 108.904 ms 109.000 ms 17 te7-1.ccr01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.129) 108.393 ms 109.177 ms 108.022 ms 18 te3-3.ccr01.dus01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.48.162) 112.030 ms 118.522 ms 112.848 ms 19 te2-1.ccr01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.3.129) 113.741 ms 114.862 ms 112.380 ms 20 q3-em9-1000m.hhde.ip.servage.net (77.232.64.46) 118.892 ms 119.027 ms 120.563 ms 21 cs3-p24-1000m.hhde.ip.servage.net (77.232.64.6) 119.669 ms 117.952 ms 120.969 ms 22 cs2-trk1-2000m.hhde.ip.servage.net (77.232.64.13) 121.847 ms 121.066 ms 121.788 ms 23 www.servage.net (77.232.66.2) 120.580 ms 121.500 ms 120.492 ms

It seems like you can’t swing a dead cat and not hit Cogent pipes.